Huawei officially recognized top ten ICT talents selected from five renowned universities of Bangladesh during the graduation ceremony of Huawei's biggest CSR programme 'Seeds for the Future 2019' held at the headquarters of the company at Shenzhen in China recently.
Huawei officials have highly praised the ICT talents, saying that Huawei will give the best effort to work on the ICT talent development and Digital Bangladesh's "vision 2021". Huawei Public Relationship Director Yan Lei and 10 other students from Ethiopia were present at the ceremony.
This year, the students have received wide range of training and technological orientation in China. They received comprehensive Chinese language course and learned Chinese Calligraphy and Taiji.
In Shenzhen, they got an overview of telecommunication network, key technologies in ICT, different generations of mobile communication (from 1G to 5G), Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Internet of Things, 4G and 5G Base station configuration, etc.
This year's Seeds for the Future program started in Bangladesh on February 17 through a press conference organized in Dhaka. Later, 10 ICT talents were chosen from five renowned universities of Bangladesh through selection round throughout the month of March.
The universities are Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) and Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET).
Before moving to China, Huawei Bangladesh organized the gala event with 10 seeds who gave presentations on E-transport, E-education, Safe City & Smart City, E-banking and E-governance, on April 3. Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Mustafa Jabbar was present as the Chief Guest both at press conference and gala event.
On April 19, the students left Dhaka for China. They visited and learnt about the historical places of China as part of study tour the following day. On April 21, Huawei welcomed the students in Beijing at Huawei executive briefing centre. Bangladesh envoy to China participated in the programme as the chief guest.
In the next two weeks, the students got idea about Chinese culture and language in local university and finally gained practical knowledge in latest technologies at the headquarters of Huawei in Shenzhen, China.
At the graduation ceremony, Yan Lei, Huawei's public relationship director said, "Congratulations to the top talents of Bangladesh. With increasing number of ICT talents, this country never stops making us impressed. They are truly advancing at a lightning fast speed and we hope that their dream of Digital Bangladesh will be fulfilled in no time. It is an honor to be a part of such a fast moving nation being a close partner of digitalization."
"Huawei Bangladesh has been collaborating and growing with Bangladesh ICT industry for the last 20 years. This effort and dedication will go on and we will keep providing the best ICT solution and infrastructure as always. It is a pleasure that we are helping them create a powerful, efficient and enlightened youth-force through our global CSR program, Seeds for the Future."
